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Roar! Roar! I’m a Dinosaur!

by Jo Lodge

Interest age: 1 to 3

Published by Boxer Books, 2022

  • Board books
  • Interactive

This book is also available in bilingual English and Welsh

About this book

Meet some brightly coloured dinosaurs in this interactive board book where little ones can push the tabs on each page to bring the dinosaurs to life – well, flap their wings or stomp their feet or swish their tail at any rate! Each page introduces a different dino, with a simple fact about each one and some related action words.

Sometimes dinosaur names can be quite tricky to say, but here the words are broken down by their sounds to help readers pronounce them, which also gets little ones thinking about the different sounds, great for language development. And the ‘sliders’ to get the dinosaurs moving help with fine motor skills, as well as just being fun!

About the author

Jo Lodge is an illustrator and paper engineer and was greatly influenced by her artistic parents - her mother, Maureen Roffey, an illustrator, and her father Bernard Lodge, a graphic designer.

Jo graduated with a fashion degree from Kingston and worked for a knitwear company designing their main collection and consulting on projects for Next, Marks & Spencer and Saks Fifth Avenue. Her first books were published by Rod Campbell and her boldly coloured animal characters have been used in a range of series. Jo was nominated for the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award in 2001 and was finalist for the Sheffield Baby Book Award in 2007. She is best known for her Mr Croc books which have been extremely successful across the world with sales exceeding 1 million copies.

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